Abstract

The objectives of this text are twofold. Firstly, it proposes an analysis of the processes of organic compost and their links to the human in order to illustrate how the contemporary landscape calls into question habitual conceptions of popular mobilization and the social using a renewed understanding of the relationship between human and non-human phenomena and of the diverse material forces that collide through processes of embodiment or association. The notion of compost here is an epistemological and political proposal related to compositional modes of thought around an ecology of practices. The second objective is to present the Chilean social uprising of October 2019 by discussing bodies as composites. Here, we seek to address the political problem from a perspective that highlights the embodiment processes involved in the revolt and how it challenges the logic of order imposed by the anthropocentric neoliberal rationale. In order to achieve the two objectives, we consider how bodies are composed through forces which, in their multiple trajectories and contingent encounters, alter the temporalities of the urban space, and we explore the mesh of human and non-human elements that shape the landscape of revolt as an expression of the need to recover its intensive and relational potential through mobilization.